River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-10
Temperance.
CONDUCTED BY THE. w. C. I. u.
For God and Home and Natiue Land

At the Union meeting on Friday
last, Mrs. II. L. Pearce was elected
Pres, Mrs. w. F. Kellogg 1st Vice
Pres, Mrs. Charles Steven son 2nd
Vice., Mrs. j. NJ. Smith, 3rd Vice.
Mrs. j. E. Rhoades, Recording and
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Will
Sanderson, Treasurer.
Miss Henrietta Cameron and Mrs.
Stevenson We're appointed Supts. of s.
S. work, this department being added
| to those already taken up.
Reports of the work in the different
departments viii be given by theiI
superintendent at the next meeting
which will be held at Mrs. Perley
Knowles. A standing invitation is
given to all our readers. Our late
string is always out Secs etary.
The Union is under great obligatiui
to the members of the Home Circl,
for the favor conferred upon them,
their anniversary, for they feel thai
the success of their entertainment was
due, largely, to their efforts. May
their Homes ever be happy and theiI
Circle never grow less.
We are greatly interested in the
Audubon Society and in full sympathy
with its aims, but do wish that while
protecting the birds it would not for
get the children. Its organ the Aud
ubon Magazine, gives prominent place
to an advertisement of branded pears,
blackberry brandy and the like.
Wherefore are not you children to be
led into temptation) of more value
than many sparrowsl'
1t having been asserted in certain
unfriendly quarters that the ballot Was
taken from The women of Washington
Territory as revenge upon them for
standing by the Third party, it may
be we'll to state that no such party has
been organized except in a single
county, Spokane. The liquor interest
has brought about the abrogation of
the Women Suffrage law, and made
It's animus cannot be mistaken I'm
ion Signal.
Readers of the Signal of March 3rd
will notice the call of Miss Willard
for day of prayer, on Tuesday the
29th day of March, from ten to four in
the afternoon, for special prayer for
our cause in Michigan where they vote
their verdict in the case of Home
against the Saloon on April 4th.
The quartette has now become a
quintette by the addition of Texas.
1t now is Texas, Oregon, Michigan,
Tennessee and West Virginia. These
are the states in which Prohibitory
Amendments are to be voted on by the
people.
WISCONSIN PROPOSALS TO ITS LEGISLATURE.
A Joint resolution for the submits
sion of a Prohibitory Constitutional
amendment; bill to prevent the hold
ing of elections in saloons, or rooms
adjoining saloons; bill to make it a
penal offense for a saloon-keeper TO
allow minor or habitual drunkard to
| enter or remain in his place, and a bill
| for closing saloons at IL O'clock
Madison Special to the New York
| Voice.
viii any of these become a law!
We shall see later.
"In High License III. the people pay
81 taxes per capita, per annum, in
Prohibition Kansas zoe. per capita, in
Prohibition Maine 10 cts, in Prohibi :
ton Iowa less than 80 cts, in the
country at large 81 So"
A Kansas man speaking of the
growing public sentiment in that state
in regard to Prohibition, says: I'VE
| adopted Prohibition in 1880 and the
law took effect in May 1881. Next
| May will be six years since it hap
penned and so deep hold has it taken
on the heart, conscience and intelli-
| gence of the people, that, though they
carried it by little less than 5000, If
/ to-day the question were submitted
| whether we should go back to our old
| system of license (and we had high
license previous to 1881 Kansas would
vote it down by $4,000 to 100. 900.
Out of 100 counties % are free from
the saloon to-day. But don't they sell
whiskey and beeri OF counsel Don't
we have prohibitory laws against
horse stealing, murder, theft and like
evilsl And are they not brokenl
Are not the restriction laws in relation
to the liquor traffic all broken! Is it
any less an evil to break prohibitory
laws than restrictive lawsl By re-
strietiYe laws a large revenue is
received and that in a great measure,
eases the conscience of some OF our
moral people who otherwise would be
glad 10 have the curse removed. Verify
the love of money (revenuel is the
root Of all evil.